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    1st they removed the sdcard from the A56, now this.

    Except updates there are even lesser reasons to consider samsung. Especially, when chinese OEMs beat them in the hardware game.

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    8 hours ago

    Google needs to get their shit together and put an actually competitive chip in their phones. I’m not buying a late cycle phone with a tensor processor that can’t even match the current snapdragon or A-series.

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    Ugh. Samsung already has the worst, most intrusive Android UI. This reinforces my determination to never give them another cent…

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        7 hours ago

        AOSP is ostensibly dead thanks to Google closing off dev access and consistent abandoning of open source apps in AOSP.

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          It isn’t completely dead since projects like Lineage OS exist

          It takes work to maintain but it seems to be the best option. It is what AOSP used to be.

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            Isn’t Lineage reliant upon AOSP existing, though? I imagine it’ll be tough surviving for them once all the restrictions Google’s been announcing are put in place…

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              Google still publishes source code

              If they didn’t phone manufacturers would have a very hard time porting Android

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    But at least this time it secures the phone against cellebrite & other hacking tools, right? …right?

    (for those unaware: there are tools built by cellebrite and other companies that can dump the internal storage of your phone and decrypt its contents without your consent. they’re in use by most police in the US at least, probably other countries as well and definitely airports. They can hack just about every single phone, except for maybe the newest iphone with a really long pin and advanced protection enabled, and recent google pixels with grapheneos.)

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    19 hours ago

    Era of tinkering, customization for better privacy ,performance is end,each day there less and less phone vendors which let to unlock bootladers,now we left with oneplus,google pixel and xiaomi with 9 circles of hell to unlock it

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      Motorola is pretty solid from a bootloader unlock perspective. It is dead simple and some devices support relocking with custom keys.

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      There haven’t been any roms for OnePlus phones in a few years since they stopped publishing the MSM tool for new phones. Iirc, the 9 was their last phone to truly support custom roms.

      Apparently the MSM tool was leaked for the 11, so there are a couple roms for it. But the old OnePlus and their community is unfortunately long dead.

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      Just waiting for the pain to be enough to switch to Linux on a phone.

      Main drawbacks right now:

      • I have one health-related (open source) app that I NEED to work flawlessly
      • Navigating the various UIs seems incredibly awkward and inconsistent
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        Have you checked SailfishOS? Their Android-bridge is pretty decent, it might work well. If you tell me the app name, I can check whether it works or not.

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      There is also less need for custom ROMs. One of the first custom ROMs that I used was for Galaxy Note 3. Following their disasterous Android 5.0 update, I decided to try out LineageOS.

      It was like night and day. It was much more responsive and UI/UX was cleaner while offering more customisation.

      These days smartphone devices (even cheaper ones) remain very performant even 3-4 years after release (battery notwithstanding) and most OEM have long support periods.

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        Depends on why you would want a custom ROM in the first place. I have even more reasons now with every bundled app tracking everything I do and AI assistants being integrated in crucial comppnents of the OS.

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        For that yes, but we want custom ROMs now to improve our privacy and to remove shitty features like AI.

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        I used to think the same but now I want custom Roms even more now than in the past for things like GrapheneOS with the desire to lessen involvement with Google or Apple.

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          I am with you on this, I too want to minimize usage/spend on both American and Chinese products/services.

          But for personally, custom ROMs have too many drawbacks for use as a daily driver.

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            9 hours ago

            What about their advantages?

            Longer battery life, more privacy, less ads, …

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        In my case it was always get rid of bloatware,spyware of default rom get more up to date security patches and more new android and root ofc.

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    They were set on doing it when Knox was first introduced anyway.

    Normies don’t give a shit anyway as they see it as a necessary step in securing their own lack of understanding of anything technology, besides brainrot and doomscrolling.

    Thanks for the reminder of why I stopped caring about Samsung phones 10 years ago.